Arizona Credit Union Teller Indicted for $526,000 Theft

Federal prosecutors alleged last week that a former teller stole more than $526,000 from member accounts at an Arizona credit union over four years. James Roy Entzminger, a former teller for the $57 million Banner Federal Credit Union in Phoenix, was charged with one...

10 Smartest States for Financial Literacy: 2017

How much have Americans learned since the Great Recession? Not enough, according to WalletHub. WalletHub released its report on 2017’s Most & Least Financially Literate States, which analyzes financial education programs and consumer habits in each of...

5 Stops on the Social Media Train

In the time I’ve been in the credit union industry, I’ve presented, and held webinars and live streaming events more than 60 times to talk about social media. I say that because, I enjoy the heck out of social media strategy-building, engagement, trends...

Wisconsin Credit Union Buys Five Bank Branches

The $689 million Marine Credit Union in La Crosse, Wis., signed an agreement Tuesday to buy five retail branches of the $2.6 billion Bank Mutual Corp. in Milwaukee. Although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the deposit and loan relationships are $52.6...

Is Your Technology Working Against You?

Technology is meant to simplify things, make the financial advisory business more efficient and save advisors time. When Mike Damas set up his independent RIA firm Maryland Capital Advisors in 2005, he found that the technology system he’d invested in...